Kurzfassung

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is the first single pass SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometer in space, it has been successfully flown on board the Space Shuttle in February 2000. The mission objective was to acquire a radar data set during this eleven-day mission, which allows to generate a new consistent and more accurate global digital terrain model and topographic maps of all land surfaces between +60 and -56 latitudes. DLR participated with its X-band SAR Interferometer system X-SAR.